maya shcushan wrote:
Dear Tom, Thanks, this was very helpful... I have a new question: I want to make a simple movie in which the molecule rotates. Using the commands script I found on the internet, the movie is of very low quality (attached). Moreover, running it with windows media player shows the opening in the script, embedded in the movie. This were the commands:
"movie record turn y 3 150 wait 150 movie encode mformat avi output spin.avi bitrate 4000"
I want to record the same movie in good quality, like the pictures I get with pov-raying. I tried running: "movie record raytrace true turn y 3 150 wait 150 movie encode mformat avi output spin.avi bitrate 4000" But it falls all the time.
I looked in the internet for scripts but didn't find an answer. Can you please help me to create a simple script in which the molecule rotates and presented in ray-tracing and high quality?
Thanksm Maya
Hi Maya, In Chimera 1.3 before the movie encode command you need the command "movie stop". movie record raytrace true turn y 3 150 wait 150 movie stop movie encode mformat avi output spin.avi bitrate 4000 Otherwise it keeps on recording frames forever. In Chimera 1.4 (daily builds) this is unnecessary and your original script works correctly because in 1.4 movie encode does a movie stop implicitly. Tom